Date: 14 December 2024 to 30 March 2025
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Design + Arts Campus, Dominga St., Malate, Manila, 1004

maria taniguchi: body of work is the artist’s first survey show. Taniguchi, whose practice is largely recognized through her ongoing work of “brick paintings,” has produced a body of work diligent in its inquiry into the concepts of systems, surface, scale, and time. Her patient renderings on her massive wall-like canvases, which she first started in 2008, have expanded to some two hundred paintings; each one seeks to limn the possibilities of surfaces within a strict schema, while the artist through her labor carves out time into visible volume. Central to the production and development of her practice, the brick paintings serve as the artist’s “conceptual scaffold,” framing her other projects of sculptural drawings, video works, and objects. 

Trained as a sculptor, Taniguchi delves into proposals of materiality and its being, the conceptual capacities of painting and sculpture, as well as the rupturing of these categories through various media. This survey show serves as the space where the linchpins of Taniguchi’s artistic project can be laid out, bringing together some of her largest canvases to date, key video pieces, objects, and a site-specific commission of her Runaways.

For more information, call 82305100 loc 3897.